Iron acquisition by photosynthetic marine phytoplankton from ingestion bacteria

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6708, 1998, Pages 248-251

  Maranger, R ^a   Bird, D F ^a   Price, N M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; IRON; PHAGOTROPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GROWTH; IRON METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

OCHROMONAS;

EID: 0032548098     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/24352     Document Type: Article

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